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The Impact Of Warfare In All Quiet On The Western Front

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Warfare has a devastating impact, that can provide an impact on the nature of humankind. “All Quiet on the Western Front” is a film that visualizes to the audience the struggles and hardships that the soldiers endured while fighting in World War 1 for Germany. The audience sees the stress not only mentally, but physically that the soldiers have to go through while at war. This film allows future generations to understand the devastating impact warfare had on everything and also provides insight into the nature on humankind. There are many scenes that are good examples for future generations to see the impact war had on the humankind throughout this film. The first scene that you get the see the terrible impact war has on humankind is when Kat dies. During the movie, Paul and Kat are in battle, and Kat is shot in the leg. Paul proceeds to lay him down and bandage his leg. No medical help is coming to help Kat, and he continues to bleed through the bandage, so Paul is determined to carry Kat to the hospital. Paul carries Kat on his shoulders, a very long distance, to get to the nearest medical treatment center. It takes a lot of strength for Paul to carry Kat all that way, and it makes him hurt even more, when he find out that Kat was hit in the head, and killed while he was …show more content…

Paul gets injured during war, and is allowed time to leave and visit home. When he returns home, he finds out that is mother is battling with cancer, and is struggling with her health. Paul must then return back to war, knowing that he may never get to see his mother again. This put a lot of stress on Paul, because he not only has to worry about his life while at war, but he also has to worry about how his mother is doing and is she is going to survive. This gives him a lot more stress than he can handle, impacting the nature on

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Everyone in the town kept asking Paul about the war. The mayor and Paul dad had kept asking him questions, and Paul was getting angry with his dad and the mayor, because he did not want to talk about it. Paul had also really missed his friends and was worried about them and hoped they would be okay when Paul had returned. I did not realize that Paul did not like that subject to be brought up, because in his head he sees many terrible scenes going on and many bombs being very close to him. Paul wanted to spend time with his mom, because he knew that she would be dying soon of cancer.

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After the traumatic experiences he suffered through, Paul made mental growth in the human aspect. He figured out that “there are still human faces” even in his enemies. Further in this realization he sympathizes with the rest of the wounded soldiers stuck in similar hospitals all over the enemy lines. This identification attaches Paul to the enemy, positively affecting his mental condition. He recognizes that he is not as drastically different as he thought which ultimately changes his outlook on the war.

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Paul is happy to be home but is frustrated by all of the questions. He is on leave and would prefer to not talk about the pain and suffering of the war. Paul is struggling with feeling at home as he has spent so much time away, and has already had close friends die and seen horrific things, why would he want to relive that? Especially because it is his mother, he doesn't want to explain the awful parts of the war. He then decides to lie to her.

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The horrors of war can be seen throughout most of the novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Although this novel takes place during World War I, horrors of war have been around since the beginning of war, and can still be seen here today. Almost all soldiers, regardless of which war they’re in, end up losing themselves. This is due to the experiences these soldiers have gone through and the horrors of war that they have seen or been a part of. War is a gruesome part of human history, and the different horrors often hidden within can tear the soldiers apart, both mentally and physically.

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Paul, in this traumatic moment shows how he has gotten to the point where he is losing his mind. He has lost trust in people so much that he thinks a doctor who has no reason to hurt him is trying to intentionally amputate his leg. He then comes to the conclusion that he has to attack the surgeon because they would gas him if he weren’t to resist. Prior to this, Paul most likely wouldn’t have reacted this way. For example, before incurring the trauma of war, Paul was seemingly capable of keeping his emotions under control even under extraordinary circumstances.

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After inhaling the toxic gas, Paul is given leave to go home for a little bit. While he is home he goes through a lot of mental struggles but was not ready for the mental toll he was about to encounter coming back to the war. Paul admits that he had changed a lot in the days saying, “I ought never to have come here, Out there I was indifferent and often hopeless — I will never be able to be so again. I was a soldier, and now I am nothing but an agony for myself, for my mother, for everything that is so comfortless and without end” (Remarque 185).

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